Laut einer in Florida eingereichten Klage haben Kriminelle eine Datenbank mit Daten von 2,9 Milliarden Menschen ins Dark Web gestellt und bieten sie für 3,5 Millionen Dollar zum Verkauf an. Nur sehr wenige Datenschutzverletzungen haben die zweifelhafte Ehre, zu den...
With the help of Interpol, Singaporean authorities have made one the largest fund recoveries stemming from scams, specifically from business email compromise (BEC) schemes. We often hear about consumer scams because they are so prevalent, but there’s a specific scam...
Google recently released a patch to address a high-severity Android kernel security vulnerability allegedly exploited in attacks in the wild. Highly Severe Android Kernel Flaw Discovered The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-36971...
The US Department of Justice has announced a seven-year sentence for the leader of a scam center that exploited elderly victims by remotely accessing their computers and convincing victims to pay for fake computer support services. From around March 2015 through July...
State-backed North Korean hackers have recently managed to exploit vulnerabilities in VPN software updates to spread malware. North Korean Hackers Pushed Malware Through Fake Updates According to a South Korea National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) security advisory,...
BBC News cybersecurity journalist Joe Tidy has found himself in the unusual position of being targeted by a scammer calling herself "Jessica", he revealed in a report [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ckdgdkrd2n2o] this week. According to Tidy, someone posing as an...
